Thanks in advance…
I installed openSUSE 11.0 KDE4 this morning no probs, have been running fine getting to know stuff. Was just fiddling with firefox cause it stopped working, downloaded a few updates (some KDE stuff and some firefox stuff). I rebooted as per instructions and when computer restarts GRUB only gives one option to boot = windows.
What can I do?
Apologies if this problem is in another thread, i had a little look but couldn’t find any help.
So the openSUSE boot menu (grub) now only has one selection, for Windows? Or only the Windows selection actually works?
Which do you have, DVD or Live-CD?
Only one selection to choose from, that of windows (xp)
I have live-cd
I also just ran the live-cd
yast > bootloader
it chugged away for a bit then told me that due to the partitioning it couldn’t install the bootloader
fdisk -l -u
Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders, total 234441648 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x97389738
then table of drives which i'll get when i can get it on the email.
cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
cat: /boot/grub/menu.lst: No such file or directory
cat /boot/grub/device.map
cat: /boot/grub/device.map No such file or directory
cat /etc/grub.conf
cat: /etc/grub.conf No such file or directory
When i get to GRUB on the boot up I find only windows available. I edit windows to find
rootnoverify (hd0,5)
chainloader (hd0,0)+1
which is confusing as shouldn’t rootnoverify be (hd0,0)?
You tried to use the commands I provided in another similar thread. There can be a number of causes, so to avoid posting back and forth getting one piece of data at a time, it’s better to get all relevant data at once. But what you did won’t work (except the fdisk command; we need that exactly as output).
Boot from the Live-CD. Open a terminal window. Switch to root (the “su” command). Then do this (assuming you formatted with the ext3 file system):
mount -t ext3 /dev/<partition> /mnt
where is the openSUSE root (/) partition. So for example, /dev/sda2 or /dev/sda3 or . . . Now do this
chroot /mnt
You are now root under your installed OS rather than the Live-CD OS in RAM. Now you can do the following
cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
cat /boot/grub/device.map
cat /etc/grub.conf
ls /boot
uname -r
exit
The “exit” will take you out of the chroot environment. Again, be sure to post back the output of the fdisk command, too.
As far as the grub boot stanza for windows, the rootnoverify is alright. In most cases, it’s not needed anyway with the chainloader command written as yours is. What you’re missing is the openSUSE stanza, maybe more. The above will tell us. (This has happened with some kernel updates, which re-write the grub control file.)
ok, cheers, i’m working through it…
linux@linux:~> su
linux:/home/linux # cd /
linux:/ # fdisk -l -u
Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders, total 234441648 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x97389738
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 83891492 41945715 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 83891493 234436544 75272526 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 83891556 85995944 1052194+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 85996008 127941659 20972826 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 127941723 234436544 53247411 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 1026 MB, 1026555904 bytes
16 heads, 32 sectors/track, 3916 cylinders, total 2004992 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x14871486
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 32 2004991 1002480 b W95 FAT32
linux:/ # mount -t ext3 /dev/sda6 /mnt
linux:/ # chroot /mnt
linux:/> cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Thu Oct 9 19:41:25 BST 2008
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd0,5)/boot/message
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows###
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,5)
chainloader (hd0,0)+1
linux:/> cat /boot/grub/device.map
(hd0) /dev/sda
linux:/>
linux:/> cat /etc/grub.conf
setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0) (hd0,5)
quit
linux:/> ls /boot
backup_mbr symsets-2.6.25.16-0.1-default.tar.gz
boot symtypes-2.6.25.16-0.1-default.gz
config-2.6.25.16-0.1-default symvers-2.6.25.16-0.1-default.gz
grub System.map-2.6.25.16-0.1-default
initrd vmlinux-2.6.25.16-0.1-default.gz
memtest.bin vmlinuz
message vmlinuz-2.6.25.16-0.1-default
linux:/> uname -r
2.6.25.5-1.1-default
linux:/>
Thanks for your time mingus725, but the problem degenerated and i couldn’t even get to windows. So I am attempting i reinstall now and it seems to be working ok.
If it all goes wrong i’ll come back to this thread.